[Peace-discuss] Truth in poetry

[Brussel Morton K.]

So wonderfully apt, if nauseating in the present context!
Why not send this stanza, and the second paragraph of the NYT article,  
back to the NYT as a letter?  --mkb

On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:21 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> ['Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the  
> twentieth time that day.
> 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first - verdict afterwards.'
> 'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having the  
> sentence first!'
> 'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
> 'I won't!' said Alice.
> 'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.  
> Nobody moved.
> 'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by  
> this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!']
>
>
> 	U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases
> 	By WILLIAM GLABERSON
> 	The New York Times - June 6, 2009
>
> The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the  
> military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that  
> would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead  
> guilty without a full trial.
>
> The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the  
> details of brutal interrogation techniques. It could also allow the  
> five detainees who have been charged with the Sept. 11 attacks to  
> achieve their stated goal of pleading guilty to gain what they have  
> called martyrdom.
>
> The proposal, in a draft of legislation that would be submitted to  
> Congress, has not been publicly disclosed. It was circulated to  
> officials under restrictions requiring secrecy. People who have read  
> or been briefed on it said it had been presented to Defense  
> Secretary Robert M. Gates by an administration task force on  
> detention.

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